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Paul Penrose

Sibos 2009 - in words, pictures and videos

The Finextra@Sibos team have returned from Hong Kong exhausted but exhilarated after a week in which we posted: 30 news stories 100 company announcements 108 photos 9 videos Members of the global Fi...

22 Sep 2009
Finextra@Sibos
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Customers Expect

It’s clear that corporations expect more than ever before from their banking service providers. They are demanding the same level of insight for payments as they receive for other areas of their busin...

22 Sep 2009
Bo Harald

Real action by Stoiber

If you can lower the treshold to e-invoicing - as suggested below (emphasis mine) - you can automate accounting, public sector reporting, further the single market and much more. Then EU and member st...

22 Sep 2009
Innovation in Financial Services
Robert Siciliano

Task Force Surprises Registered Sex Offenders

While information security is always top of mind, my first passion has always been personal security. There always has been, is, and always will be predators stalking their prey. Unfortunately this is...

22 Sep 2009
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Women in the City

There have been some pretty disappointing statistics in the press recently when it comes to equality and the gender pay gap – especially in the finance sector. A report by the Equality and Human Right...

21 Sep 2009
Women in Technology
Bo Harald

Widening Adoption Gap

Technology is not the narrow sector - it is amply on offer - and the costs are going from low to lower. Technology enables "anything" and in most cases the utility is evident. The adoption g...

20 Sep 2009
Innovation in Financial Services
A Finextra Member

The Uncertainty of Pricing Models

I managed to catch some of the first day on Thursday of the "Pricing Model Validation: Mitigating Model Risk" conference. I thought it would be worthwhile going along since firstly the past...

20 Sep 2009
Data Management 101
Robert Siciliano

Criminal Hackers Get to Momma and DaDa Via Children

I’m particularly irate about this. There’s criminal hackers, then there’s complete lowlife scumbag criminal hackers that hack children. InternetNews reports hackers took over sections of the PBS.org ...

20 Sep 2009
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21st Century Transaction Systems and Health Care

When thinking about doing things differently in the transaction and identity space its hard to go past the health care industry. There are an awful lot of health care transactions and with the right s...

19 Sep 2009
Whatever...
Bo Harald

Four Economics

Banks should move up the order-to-payment value chain from payments and down the payment-to-accounting value chain - before invaders move down or up into the payment business. The reasons are fundamen...

19 Sep 2009
Innovation in Financial Services
Robert Siciliano

Carders, Dumps, and Identity Theft

Albert Gonzalez and his gang of criminal hackers, were responsible for data breaches in retailers and payment processors with some estimates saying they breached over 230 million records combined. Gon...

19 Sep 2009
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What's the colour of money?

‘Familiarity breeds contempt’ is a line from Hollywood Beyond’s hit single, ‘What’s the colour of money?’. The same phrase could arguably be used to describe bankers’ relationship with money in the ru...

18 Sep 2009

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